No, pathetic is thinking you represent a playerbase strong enough to even pay the costs of running one server. You don’t.
Even more absurd is you hinting that blizzard OWES you a server just because you want it. And even more incredibly absurd than that hint… is you’re idea that they should operate it at a loss just for you and you’re incredibly vocal minority.
If the game mode were actually popular, you’d have it… because you’re not completely wrong. The possibility of a server existing is… possible. Excluding loss of revenue and dev time, they absolutely possibly maybe even could run you that server. They won’t, they didn’t, and thats all the info you really need to understand your representation of tbc era.
Why would they let people transfer to ERA, and if they do, why would you assume they would bring back the failed clone program that likely only cost them money? It just makes little to no sense, and only creates another situation where they have to manage additional resources for a year.
Really the only reasonable thing that makes sense would be allow the freshers to all jump back to a ERA Forever servers when they get bored after BWL and are demanding new fresh in a few months, as transfers between servers could likely be done by simply updating a config file. Additionally, if they wanted to easily monetize it they could simply allow only paid transfers.
First of all, you are delusional if you think the number of subs that a single TBC Era server would secure would not cover the costs of maintaining the server. This is so absurd I can’t believe you are even suggesting it.
Second, I never said Blizzard owes us a server… but they do owe us honesty and respect if they want our continued subscriptions. They misled us with their whole “meeting the diverse needs of players” and setting up the cloning system so people could stay in vanilla Era if they didn’t want to play TBC. The way they spoke about it, they obviously were planning this system to continue as they made a big deal about being able to choose the expansion you wanted to play. But they ended up getting cold feet and never committed to TBC Era after they botched the whole thing by cloning a bunch of empty servers and charging players for each character they cloned. The whole implementation was a disaster that sabotaged the long-term viability of TBC.
I’m so sick of people talking about loss of revenue and dev time, as if TBC Classic wasn’t already a finished product. Also all the Classic games run on the same engine as retail now, maintaining multiple versions once they have been ported is trivial.
You just don’t like TBC, so you’re making up stupid excuses.
First was a question on why would they want to do it, second comment was simply advising the best option if they did allow it. Didn’t think it was that confusing, sorry you didn’t understand.
Why do you think it was a fine system? It ultimately seems to have failed the first time around ERA was a complete ghost town and they shut it down as quickly as they could. I suspect very few people used it.
Transfers on the other hand are simple and extremely easy to implement, it would probably take someone about 5 minutes tops to implement, and they could allow paid transfers, or if desired even free transfers back to the main clusters.
just because you don’t enjoy vanilla end game non-raid content does not mean everyone else doesn’t too
face it: you are not the target audience this time around
The open world by the time BWL opens - where the top players are going to be PvP geared with rank 14 weapons - really isn’t all that different than Era.
